Q: We recently moved out of a rental home. Our lease stated that the tenant was required to have the home and carpets professionally cleaned upon vacancy. We offered the landlady $350 from our deposit ...

A deposit is a deposit, right? Not necessarily. For renters, there are security deposits, pet deposits, cleaning deposits and damage deposits, to name a few. And, of course, they can all be used to ...

Recent disputes shared on social media about landlords withholding outgoing tenants' deposits have sparked concern about how their deposits should be handled. Some tenants have alleged that landlords ...

Social media posts on TikTok and Facebook claim that landlords are no longer able to charge new tenants three months’ rent as a security deposit beginning July 1. Landlords often require a security ...

A small group of startups are offering alternatives to the rental apartment security deposit, and that’s great news. It’s about time we get rid of an archaic institution that saps New York’s economy ...